Umamaheswar Janani
Department of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice, Pennsylvania State University, 904 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2013 Sep;57(9):1158-82. doi: 10.1177/0306624X12445986. Epub 2012 May 9.
Although youth probation (in some countries described as youth justice or youth offending work) has been widely discussed in older and more recent criminological literature, less attention has been paid to youth probation officers' accounts of their attitudes and strategies. In this study, the author uses in-depth interviews with 20 youth probation officers in Toronto, examining officers' attitudes toward the youth they work with and how these attitudes are reflected in the strategies that the officers use to achieve their professional goals. Findings reveal that the officers balance their authoritative and supportive roles not only to hold youth accountable, to encourage them to assert control over their lives, and to maintain optimism about the possibility of a nondeviant life, but also to assist the youth in attaining the means and resources necessary to make positive changes. These findings are interpreted within the framework of Canadian youth justice legislation as well as the broader desistance literature.
尽管青少年缓刑（在一些国家被称为青少年司法或青少年犯罪工作）在早期和近期的犯罪学文献中都有广泛讨论，但青少年缓刑官对其态度和策略的描述却较少受到关注。在本研究中，作者对多伦多的20名青少年缓刑官进行了深入访谈，考察了缓刑官对他们所服务的青少年的态度，以及这些态度如何体现在缓刑官为实现职业目标而采用的策略中。研究结果表明，缓刑官平衡了他们的权威角色和支持角色，不仅是为了让青少年承担责任，鼓励他们掌控自己的生活，并对非偏差生活的可能性保持乐观态度，也是为了帮助青少年获得做出积极改变所需的手段和资源。这些研究结果在加拿大青少年司法立法以及更广泛的脱罪文献框架内进行了解释。
